"Roger Payen - Project For The Dono Cinema - 1929"
PAYEN, Roger. Project for the Cinéma Dono. Pencil and gray ink wash. 55 x 40.8 cm. Signed and dated lower right: "Paris, September 4, 1929, R. Payen", then "Scale 0m,02 by M." Elevation of a beautiful Art Deco cinema facade bearing in large letters "CINEMA - DONO", with next to it the section of the facade and below the ground plan of the vestibule. Roger Payen (1913-2012) is a painter, draftsman and decorator, communist and resistance fighter. This is a work from his youth: Roger Payen was only 16 years old. He was then working as an apprentice in the Soubrier house, furniture designers in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, while taking evening classes at the Boulle school.